Jody Rockmaker

Biography

"Rockmaker's writing is both traditionally disciplined and unexpectedly inventive..."   -New Music Connoisseur

Jody Rockmaker (born 1961, New York City) received his Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University. He has studied at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Erich Urbanner, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt, Claudio Spies, Malcolm Peyton and Miriam Gideon.

Dr. Rockmaker is the recipient of numerous awards including a Barlow Endowment Commission, Fulbright Grant, two BMI Awards for Young Composers, an ASCAP Grant, the George Whitefield Chadwick Medal from New England Conservatory, and a National Orchestral Association Orchestral Reading Fellowship. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Villa Montalvo, and has been a Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. He taught at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Music.

ACE Publications

59 title(s)
Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
Jody Rockmaker Earth Spirits Violin and Viola
Jody Rockmaker Eyes of an Abinhaya Dancer, The fl, cl, vln, vcl
Jody Rockmaker Quarter for Twelve fl,ob,cl,bs.cl,bsn,hn,perc,2vln,vla,vcl,cb
Jody Rockmaker where late the sweet birds sang Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, and Piano
Jody Rockmaker Interchangeable Parts 2.2.2.2 2.4.3.1 TIMPANI, 2 PERCUSSION, STRINGS
Jody Rockmaker Mood Swing gtr
Jody Rockmaker Multiplicities Clarinet
Jody Rockmaker TieCo Percussion Quartet
Jody Rockmaker AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet, Horn, and Piano
Jody Rockmaker PASSION STRINGS Viola and Cello
Jody Rockmaker Shifty Business BASS CLARINET, MARIMBA
Jody Rockmaker South Mountain Sunset Viola and Piano
Jody Rockmaker SPRING FEVER Clarinet and Piano
Jody Rockmaker MAGICAL PLACE OF MY DREAMS
2cl
Jody Rockmaker Child's Question SATB
Jody Rockmaker Kokopelli Dreams FLUTE, OBOE, Bb-CLARINET, HORN, BASSOON
Jody Rockmaker THREE BAGATELLES FOR PIANO Piano
Jody Rockmaker WIDE NIGHT SKY for organ Organ
Jody Rockmaker ROTHKO LANDSCAPES
2cl in Bb, 2cl in A
Jody Rockmaker FRANTIC ANTICS for guitar and violin
gtr, vln
Jody Rockmaker CHATTERBOXES for Wind Ensemble wind ens: 3/pic-2-eh-2-bcl-1-cbsn; 4-3-2-btbn-1; timp, 2perc
3 flute (III double on piccolo), 2 ob, E hrn, 2 cl, bs cl, 2 bsn, cnt bsn, 4 hrn, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, bs tbn, tba, timp, 2 perc.
Jody Rockmaker WHIRLIGIGS for saxophone quartet Saxophone Quartet
Jody Rockmaker SONG OF SONGS
S, T, cham orch: fl, cl, vln, vc, 2perc
Jody Rockmaker DER HEYSER BULGER for Klezmer Band
Klezmer band: fl, cl, tpt, bar, tbn, tba, perc, pf, gtr, mand, 2vln
Jody Rockmaker Yiddish Choruses (5) SATB Chorus

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